Determinants of Health and Pediatric Primary Care Practices.

More than 20% of children nationally live in poverty. Pediatric primary care practices are critical points-of-contact for these patients and their families. Practices must consider risks that are rooted in poverty as they determine how to best deliver family-centered care and move toward action on the social determinants of health.

Sources of parenting information in low SES mothers.

This study examined 3 questions: (1) What are sources from which low socioeconomic status (SES) mothers of newborns receive parenting information? (2) To what extent are sociodemographic characteristics associated with sources? (3) To what extent are sources associated with intentions regarding activities with infants? In this cross-sectional analysis, mothers were interviewed during the postpartum period about potential sources of information about parenting and asked if and when they planned to initiate shared reading and television exposure during infancy. Maternal high school graduation, US birth, non-Latina ethnicity, language English, higher SES, and firstborn child were each associated with one or more categories representing important sources of parenting information. In adjusted analyses, print, physicians and other health care professionals, and family/friends as important sources of information were each significantly associated with increased frequency of intention to begin shared reading in infancy; television as an important source was associated with intention to begin television in infancy.

Maternal literacy and associations between education and the cognitive home environment in low-income families.

Objective: To determine whether maternal literacy level accounts for associations between educational level and the cognitive home environment in low-income families.

Design: Analysis of 369 mother-infant dyads participating in a long-term study related to early child development.

Setting: Urban public hospital.

Mothers' expectations for shared reading after delivery: implications for reading activities at 6 months.

Objective: To determine whether mothers with plans related to shared reading and baby books in the home at the time of delivery of their newborns would be more likely to engage in shared reading behaviors at age 6 months.

Methods: This was a cohort study with enrollment after birth and follow-up at 6 months in an urban public hospital. Predictors included mothers' attitudes and resources related to shared reading during the postpartum period.